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* [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] release candidate 20.02-rc4
@ 2020-02-22 21:08 Thomas Monjalon
  2020-02-25  9:58 ` Ali Alnubani
  2020-03-18  0:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [EXTERNAL] " Abhishek Marathe
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Thomas Monjalon @ 2020-02-22 21:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: announce

A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v20.02-rc4
76 patches were integrated.
This is small enough to be confident about closing 20.02 soon.

The release notes so far:
	http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_20_02.html
Please add your tested platforms to the list:
	http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_20_02.html#tested-platforms
Some deprecation notices are pending for review.

This is the last release candidate for DPDK 20.02.
Please share some release validation results
by replying to this message (at dev@dpdk.org).
If no critical issue is reported, 20.02 will be closed on Tuesday 25th.

If you are preparing the next release cycle, please send your v1 patches
before the 20.05 proposal deadline, which will happen on March 18th.
It is also time to build an estimated roadmap for the next cycles.

Thank you everyone



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* Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] release candidate 20.02-rc4
  2020-02-22 21:08 [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] release candidate 20.02-rc4 Thomas Monjalon
@ 2020-02-25  9:58 ` Ali Alnubani
  2020-02-25 14:37   ` Xu, Qian Q
  2020-03-18  0:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [EXTERNAL] " Abhishek Marathe
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Ali Alnubani @ 2020-02-25  9:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Thomas Monjalon, dev; +Cc: Raslan Darawsheh, Asaf Penso

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: announce <announce-bounces@dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Thomas 
> Monjalon
> Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2020 11:08 PM
> To: announce@dpdk.org
> Subject: [dpdk-announce] release candidate 20.02-rc4
> 
> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
<removed>
> 
> This is the last release candidate for DPDK 20.02.
> Please share some release validation results by replying to this 
> message (at dev@dpdk.org).
> If no critical issue is reported, 20.02 will be closed on Tuesday 25th.
> 
> If you are preparing the next release cycle, please send your v1 
> patches before the 20.05 proposal deadline, which will happen on March 18th.
> It is also time to build an estimated roadmap for the next cycles.
> 
> Thank you everyone
> 

The following covers the tests that we ran on Mellanox hardware for this version:

- Basic functionality:
  Send and receive multiple types of traffic.
- testpmd xstats counter test.
- testpmd timestamp test.
- Changing/checking link status through testpmd.
- RTE flow and flow_director tests.
  Items: eth / vlan / ipv4 / ipv6 / tcp / udp / icmp / gre / nvgre / vxlan / geneve / ip in ip / mplsoudp / mplsogre / gtp
  Actions: drop / queue / rss / mark / flag / jump / count / port_id / raw_encap / raw_decap / vxlan_encap / vxlan_decap / NAT
- Some RSS tests.
- VLAN stripping and insertion tests.
- Checksum and TSO tests.
- ptype tests.
- l3fwd-power example application tests.
- Multi-process example applications tests.

We don't see any critical issues blocking the release.

Thanks,
Ali

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* Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] release candidate 20.02-rc4
  2020-02-25  9:58 ` Ali Alnubani
@ 2020-02-25 14:37   ` Xu, Qian Q
  2020-02-25 14:44     ` Thomas Monjalon
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Xu, Qian Q @ 2020-02-25 14:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ali Alnubani, Thomas Monjalon, dev
  Cc: Raslan Darawsheh, Asaf Penso, Peng, Yuan, Yu, PingX

Some quick update from Intel on RC4 testing

Summary

1. Totally execution percentage is around 90%, pass rate is around 98%
2. Created 2 new medium/low issue in RC4.  

Details:
1. Intel NIC PMD PF & VF regression: 95% executed, 0 critical issue and high issue found. 
Function cases include rx/tx/forward packets, packet processing, jumboframe, dual vlan, filter cases and so on: 2 bugs found, no critical/high bugs. 
Performance cases such as l2fwd, l3fwd, single core and so on: no new bug is found.
2. Cryptodev cases include ipsec_gw cryptodev, fips cryptodev, l2fwd crypto, performance cases and so on: no critical and no high bugs found.
 Function cases all passed, performance cases not fully executed. 
3. Vhost/virtio: PVP/loopback, qemu/virtio-user, multi-queue, dequeue zero copy cases and so on: 1 new medium bug is found.
4. Power relate cases, no new bug is found.
5. ABI test includes unit test, vhost and flow related tests.  no new bug is  found.
6. 20.02 new features include ABI test, L2tpv3,  crypto_dev related new features and so no.  no new bug is found. 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev <dev-bounces@dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Ali Alnubani
> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 5:59 PM
> To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>; dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@mellanox.com>; Asaf Penso
> <asafp@mellanox.com>
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] release candidate 20.02-rc4
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: announce <announce-bounces@dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Thomas
> > Monjalon
> > Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2020 11:08 PM
> > To: announce@dpdk.org
> > Subject: [dpdk-announce] release candidate 20.02-rc4
> >
> > A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
> <removed>
> >
> > This is the last release candidate for DPDK 20.02.
> > Please share some release validation results by replying to this
> > message (at dev@dpdk.org).
> > If no critical issue is reported, 20.02 will be closed on Tuesday 25th.
> >
> > If you are preparing the next release cycle, please send your v1
> > patches before the 20.05 proposal deadline, which will happen on March 18th.
> > It is also time to build an estimated roadmap for the next cycles.
> >
> > Thank you everyone
> >
> 
> The following covers the tests that we ran on Mellanox hardware for this
> version:
> 
> - Basic functionality:
>   Send and receive multiple types of traffic.
> - testpmd xstats counter test.
> - testpmd timestamp test.
> - Changing/checking link status through testpmd.
> - RTE flow and flow_director tests.
>   Items: eth / vlan / ipv4 / ipv6 / tcp / udp / icmp / gre / nvgre / vxlan / geneve /
> ip in ip / mplsoudp / mplsogre / gtp
>   Actions: drop / queue / rss / mark / flag / jump / count / port_id / raw_encap /
> raw_decap / vxlan_encap / vxlan_decap / NAT
> - Some RSS tests.
> - VLAN stripping and insertion tests.
> - Checksum and TSO tests.
> - ptype tests.
> - l3fwd-power example application tests.
> - Multi-process example applications tests.
> 
> We don't see any critical issues blocking the release.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ali

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread

* Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] release candidate 20.02-rc4
  2020-02-25 14:37   ` Xu, Qian Q
@ 2020-02-25 14:44     ` Thomas Monjalon
  2020-02-25 15:27       ` Raslan Darawsheh
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Thomas Monjalon @ 2020-02-25 14:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ali Alnubani, Xu, Qian Q, Raslan Darawsheh
  Cc: dev, Asaf Penso, Peng, Yuan, Yu, PingX

Can we assume we are OK to release today?


25/02/2020 15:37, Xu, Qian Q:
> Some quick update from Intel on RC4 testing
> 
> Summary
> 
> 1. Totally execution percentage is around 90%, pass rate is around 98%
> 2. Created 2 new medium/low issue in RC4.  
> 
> Details:
> 1. Intel NIC PMD PF & VF regression: 95% executed, 0 critical issue and high issue found. 
> Function cases include rx/tx/forward packets, packet processing, jumboframe, dual vlan, filter cases and so on: 2 bugs found, no critical/high bugs. 
> Performance cases such as l2fwd, l3fwd, single core and so on: no new bug is found.
> 2. Cryptodev cases include ipsec_gw cryptodev, fips cryptodev, l2fwd crypto, performance cases and so on: no critical and no high bugs found.
>  Function cases all passed, performance cases not fully executed. 
> 3. Vhost/virtio: PVP/loopback, qemu/virtio-user, multi-queue, dequeue zero copy cases and so on: 1 new medium bug is found.
> 4. Power relate cases, no new bug is found.
> 5. ABI test includes unit test, vhost and flow related tests.  no new bug is  found.
> 6. 20.02 new features include ABI test, L2tpv3,  crypto_dev related new features and so no.  no new bug is found. 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dev <dev-bounces@dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Ali Alnubani
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 5:59 PM
> > To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>; dev@dpdk.org
> > Cc: Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@mellanox.com>; Asaf Penso
> > <asafp@mellanox.com>
> > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] release candidate 20.02-rc4
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: announce <announce-bounces@dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Thomas
> > > Monjalon
> > > Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2020 11:08 PM
> > > To: announce@dpdk.org
> > > Subject: [dpdk-announce] release candidate 20.02-rc4
> > >
> > > A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
> > <removed>
> > >
> > > This is the last release candidate for DPDK 20.02.
> > > Please share some release validation results by replying to this
> > > message (at dev@dpdk.org).
> > > If no critical issue is reported, 20.02 will be closed on Tuesday 25th.
> > >
> > > If you are preparing the next release cycle, please send your v1
> > > patches before the 20.05 proposal deadline, which will happen on March 18th.
> > > It is also time to build an estimated roadmap for the next cycles.
> > >
> > > Thank you everyone
> > >
> > 
> > The following covers the tests that we ran on Mellanox hardware for this
> > version:
> > 
> > - Basic functionality:
> >   Send and receive multiple types of traffic.
> > - testpmd xstats counter test.
> > - testpmd timestamp test.
> > - Changing/checking link status through testpmd.
> > - RTE flow and flow_director tests.
> >   Items: eth / vlan / ipv4 / ipv6 / tcp / udp / icmp / gre / nvgre / vxlan / geneve /
> > ip in ip / mplsoudp / mplsogre / gtp
> >   Actions: drop / queue / rss / mark / flag / jump / count / port_id / raw_encap /
> > raw_decap / vxlan_encap / vxlan_decap / NAT
> > - Some RSS tests.
> > - VLAN stripping and insertion tests.
> > - Checksum and TSO tests.
> > - ptype tests.
> > - l3fwd-power example application tests.
> > - Multi-process example applications tests.
> > 
> > We don't see any critical issues blocking the release.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Ali




^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread

* Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] release candidate 20.02-rc4
  2020-02-25 14:44     ` Thomas Monjalon
@ 2020-02-25 15:27       ` Raslan Darawsheh
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Raslan Darawsheh @ 2020-02-25 15:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ali Alnubani, Xu, Qian Q, Thomas Monjalon
  Cc: dev, Asaf Penso, Peng, Yuan, Yu, PingX

Hi,

It's Ok from our side and we can release.

Kindest regards
Raslan Darawsheh

Kindest regards
Raslan Darawsheh

________________________________
From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 4:44:26 PM
To: Ali Alnubani <alialnu@mellanox.com>; Xu, Qian Q <qian.q.xu@intel.com>; Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@mellanox.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org <dev@dpdk.org>; Asaf Penso <asafp@mellanox.com>; Peng, Yuan <yuan.peng@intel.com>; Yu, PingX <pingx.yu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-announce] release candidate 20.02-rc4

Can we assume we are OK to release today?


25/02/2020 15:37, Xu, Qian Q:
> Some quick update from Intel on RC4 testing
>
> Summary
>
> 1. Totally execution percentage is around 90%, pass rate is around 98%
> 2. Created 2 new medium/low issue in RC4.
>
> Details:
> 1. Intel NIC PMD PF & VF regression: 95% executed, 0 critical issue and high issue found.
> Function cases include rx/tx/forward packets, packet processing, jumboframe, dual vlan, filter cases and so on: 2 bugs found, no critical/high bugs.
> Performance cases such as l2fwd, l3fwd, single core and so on: no new bug is found.
> 2. Cryptodev cases include ipsec_gw cryptodev, fips cryptodev, l2fwd crypto, performance cases and so on: no critical and no high bugs found.
>  Function cases all passed, performance cases not fully executed.
> 3. Vhost/virtio: PVP/loopback, qemu/virtio-user, multi-queue, dequeue zero copy cases and so on: 1 new medium bug is found.
> 4. Power relate cases, no new bug is found.
> 5. ABI test includes unit test, vhost and flow related tests.  no new bug is  found.
> 6. 20.02 new features include ABI test, L2tpv3,  crypto_dev related new features and so no.  no new bug is found.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dev <dev-bounces@dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Ali Alnubani
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 5:59 PM
> > To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>; dev@dpdk.org
> > Cc: Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@mellanox.com>; Asaf Penso
> > <asafp@mellanox.com>
> > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] release candidate 20.02-rc4
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: announce <announce-bounces@dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Thomas
> > > Monjalon
> > > Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2020 11:08 PM
> > > To: announce@dpdk.org
> > > Subject: [dpdk-announce] release candidate 20.02-rc4
> > >
> > > A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
> > <removed>
> > >
> > > This is the last release candidate for DPDK 20.02.
> > > Please share some release validation results by replying to this
> > > message (at dev@dpdk.org).
> > > If no critical issue is reported, 20.02 will be closed on Tuesday 25th.
> > >
> > > If you are preparing the next release cycle, please send your v1
> > > patches before the 20.05 proposal deadline, which will happen on March 18th.
> > > It is also time to build an estimated roadmap for the next cycles.
> > >
> > > Thank you everyone
> > >
> >
> > The following covers the tests that we ran on Mellanox hardware for this
> > version:
> >
> > - Basic functionality:
> >   Send and receive multiple types of traffic.
> > - testpmd xstats counter test.
> > - testpmd timestamp test.
> > - Changing/checking link status through testpmd.
> > - RTE flow and flow_director tests.
> >   Items: eth / vlan / ipv4 / ipv6 / tcp / udp / icmp / gre / nvgre / vxlan / geneve /
> > ip in ip / mplsoudp / mplsogre / gtp
> >   Actions: drop / queue / rss / mark / flag / jump / count / port_id / raw_encap /
> > raw_decap / vxlan_encap / vxlan_decap / NAT
> > - Some RSS tests.
> > - VLAN stripping and insertion tests.
> > - Checksum and TSO tests.
> > - ptype tests.
> > - l3fwd-power example application tests.
> > - Multi-process example applications tests.
> >
> > We don't see any critical issues blocking the release.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ali




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* Re: [dpdk-dev] [EXTERNAL] [dpdk-announce] release candidate 20.02-rc4
  2020-02-22 21:08 [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] release candidate 20.02-rc4 Thomas Monjalon
  2020-02-25  9:58 ` Ali Alnubani
@ 2020-03-18  0:54 ` Abhishek Marathe
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Abhishek Marathe @ 2020-03-18  0:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Kevin Traynor; +Cc: dev, Lili Deng, Ju-Hyoung Lee

Hi,

Replying to this email thread as I'm not able to find original thread for 20.02 review and test.

Our findings while testing v20.02:
1. We did see issues against SLES15 SP1 and RHEL 7 RAW with CX4, after investigation, issues are fixed by installing Mellanox driver.

DPDK_SOURCE_URL=https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/snapshot/dpdk-v20.02.tar.gz

Test case description:
* VERIFY-DPDK-COMPLIANCE - verifies kernel is supported and that the build is successful
* VERIFY-DPDK-BUILD-AND-TESTPMD-TEST - verifies using testpmd that packets can be sent from a VM to another VM
* VERIFY-SRIOV-FAILSAFE-FOR-DPDK - disables/enables Accelerated Networking for the NICs under test and makes sure DPDK works in both scenarios
* VERIFY-DPDK-FAILSAFE-DURING-TRAFFIC - disables/enables Accelerated Networking for the NICs while generating traffic using testpmd

* PERF-DPDK-FWD-PPS-DS15 - verifies DPDK forwarding performance using testpmd on 2, 4, 8 cores, rx and io mode on size Standard_DS15_v2
* PERF-DPDK-SINGLE-CORE-PPS-DS4 - verifies DPDK performance using testpmd on 1 core, rx and io mode on size Standard_DS4_v2
* PERF-DPDK-SINGLE-CORE-PPS-DS15 - verifies DPDK performance using testpmd on 1 core, rx and io mode on size Standard_DS15_v2
* PERF-DPDK-MULTICORE-PPS-DS15 - verifies DPDK performance using testpmd on 2, 4, 8 cores, rx and io mode on size Standard_DS15_v2
* PERF-DPDK-MULTICORE-PPS-F32 - verifies DPDK performance using testpmd on 2, 4, 8, 16 cores, rx and io mode on size Standard_F32s_v2

* DPDK-RING-LATENCY - verifies DPDK CPU latency using https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fshemminger%2Fdpdk-ring-ping.git&amp;data=02%7C01%7CAbhishek.Marathe%40microsoft.com%7Caa457975b80d4b905a4708d748949f33%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637057675470614018&amp;sdata=grffUwKPmgVqikIpQzx6%2Bd9D2rpuCDnqvH%2FVIe5iUa4%3D&amp;reserved=0
* VERIFY-DPDK-PRIMARY-SECONDARY-PROCESSES - verifies primary / secondary processes support for DPDK. Runs only on RHEL and Ubuntu distros with Linux kernel >= 4.20

* VERIFY-DPDK-OVS - builds OVS with DPDK support and tests if the OVS DPDK ports can be created. Runs only on Ubuntu distro.
* VERIFY-DPDK-VPP - builds VPP with DPDK support and tests if the VPP ports are present. Runs only on RHEL and Ubuntu distros.
* VERIFY-DPDK-NFF-GO - builds NFF-GO with DPDK support and runs the functional tests from the NFF-GO repository. Runs only on Ubuntu distro. 

Azure images:
Canonical UbuntuServer 16.04-LTS latest
Canonical UbuntuServer 18.04-DAILY-LTS latest
RedHat RHEL 7-RAW latest 
RedHat RHEL 7.5 latest 
Openlogic CentOS 7.5 latest
SUSE SLES-15-sp1 gen1 latest
 
Test case status:
VERIFY-DPDK-FAILSAFE-DURING-TRAFFIC PASS
VERIFY-DPDK-BUILD-AND-TESTPMD-TEST PASS
VERIFY-SRIOV-FAILSAFE-FOR-DPDK PASS
VERIFY-DPDK-COMPLIANCE PASS
VERIFY-DPDK-OVS PASS
VERIFY-DPDK-RING-LATENCY PASS
PERF-DPDK-FWD-PPS-DS15 PASS
PERF-DPDK-SINGLE-CORE-PPS-DS4 PASS
PERF-DPDK-SINGLE-CORE-PPS-DS15 PASS
PERF-DPDK-MULTICORE-PPS-DS15 PASS
PERF-DPDK-MULTICORE-PPS-F32 PASS

Regards,
Abhishek

-----Original Message-----
From: announce <announce-bounces@dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Thomas Monjalon
Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2020 1:08 PM
To: announce@dpdk.org
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [dpdk-announce] release candidate 20.02-rc4

A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
	https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgit.dpdk.org%2Fdpdk%2Ftag%2F%3Fid%3Dv20.02-rc4&amp;data=02%7C01%7CAbhishek.Marathe%40microsoft.com%7C7386440a2e714d37831408d7b7db55ca%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637180024975203059&amp;sdata=XF8S3GF8oUsBXh7O2NIgz002HM611Ob6bBHfPbThZZ0%3D&amp;reserved=0
76 patches were integrated.
This is small enough to be confident about closing 20.02 soon.

The release notes so far:
	https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdoc.dpdk.org%2Fguides%2Frel_notes%2Frelease_20_02.html&amp;data=02%7C01%7CAbhishek.Marathe%40microsoft.com%7C7386440a2e714d37831408d7b7db55ca%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637180024975203059&amp;sdata=LMP4KBmgrDdPCeE%2B6IW8ZJDHOJYCJl%2Fr6WnA647xVnY%3D&amp;reserved=0
Please add your tested platforms to the list:
	https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdoc.dpdk.org%2Fguides%2Frel_notes%2Frelease_20_02.html%23tested-platforms&amp;data=02%7C01%7CAbhishek.Marathe%40microsoft.com%7C7386440a2e714d37831408d7b7db55ca%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637180024975203059&amp;sdata=Z9u9LjrUUe%2FqHk2o34eYz2erZuhmQCqr16YUIyXvXnk%3D&amp;reserved=0
Some deprecation notices are pending for review.

This is the last release candidate for DPDK 20.02.
Please share some release validation results by replying to this message (at dev@dpdk.org).
If no critical issue is reported, 20.02 will be closed on Tuesday 25th.

If you are preparing the next release cycle, please send your v1 patches before the 20.05 proposal deadline, which will happen on March 18th.
It is also time to build an estimated roadmap for the next cycles.

Thank you everyone



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